Girls' name · since 1940
Jowanna
227 babies named Jowanna in U.S. Social Security records since 1940, with the highest year being 1959. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #18,526 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 227
- born since 1940
- 1980s
- peak decade
Jowanna is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 227 have been recorded since 1940.
Jowanna has 227 recorded births among girls since 1940, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1940 to 1991.
- #18,526 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 227 born since 1940
- 1980s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Jowanna ranks #18,526 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 227 born since 1940, peaking in the 1980s.
- #18,526 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 227
- born since 1940
- 1980s
- peak decade
Jowanna's 227 recorded births place it above 74.36% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jowanna's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Jowanna splits its recorded history at 1975: 52% of all births land in the more recent half, 48% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1940 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1959 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Jowanna popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1940–1991
- Peak year (1959)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 52 years of records
Jowanna by decade
1980s is the heaviest window (68 births, 30% of the file).
1980s was Jowanna's strongest decade.
68 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 30% of all-time use.
Jowanna births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s 10
1940s
10 births
- 1950s 26
1950s
26 births
- 1960s
1960s
47 births
- 1970s
1970s
63 births
- 1980s
1980s
68 births
- 1990s 13
1990s
13 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 68 births (30% of all-time use).
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- Jowanna's decade-level peak was the 1980s (68 total births); usage has since declined to 13 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Jowanna: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1959)
Similar record span (~51 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1940–1991 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jowanna draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.